Knit fabric.



Patented luly l0, |900,

INVENTOR:

KNIT

(Application filed Nov. 24, 1899 POW FIG 5 STATES .PATENT UNiTED Ormes.

JOHN G. POWELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO EDWARD POWELL, OF SAME PLACE.

K N lT F AB R l C SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 'Patent No. 653,398, dated July 10,

Application filed November 24,1899. Serial No. 733,123.

(No specimens.)

To all whom t may concern: ing. I have since discovered that a fabric Beit known that I, JOHN POWELL, of structurally different from that set forth in Philadelphia, in the State have invented' certain new provements 'in Stockings, whereof the follow- 'ing is a specification, reference being h the accompanying drawings.

my said application can 'machines of the same were there contemplated and that an article, such as a stocking, made fabric possesses very d be produced upon In said drawings, Figure 1 represents a This new fabric and the method of its embodistocking formed of a ,fabric made in accordment in a stocking I will now proceed to deio ance with my invention, while Figs. 2 and 3 scribe.

are detail views, upon an enlarged scale, illus- I prefer to employ a machine of the general of the web at those portyp tions where prominent characteristics occur. In the manufacture of stockings it is often considered desirable to knit one portion of the foot with a yarn differing in color or in both particulars from that used my Letters Patent No. 582,547

and having a reciprocating carria actuates the them. This carriage is capable of alternative methods of operationfth plete reciprocation back and side and ma then perform asimilar funcings. l such stockin gs-via that set forth in Letters Patent of the United States No. 4:6

actuate the needles of one be independently these are united along by interknitting. This method was, howfoi med upon such a mac ine and can, as 3o ever, necessarily followed throughout the described in my said application, Serial o whole article, so that the seam or line of de- 713,891,be united by interknitting along their marcation between the two webs was mani ioximate edges, such interknitting being fest not only where they were formed of difeffected by throwing over a needle from at ferent yarns, (as in the foot of the stocking) bed which for the time bein 1r is idle and enbut also where the same yarn vas used for gaginga both webs, as in the leg portion. Such stockprocess of formation upon th ings were therefore characterized by a lack opposite b this action being repeated at of finish or imperfection in the Ieg portion, each end of the web during one complete resince the line of union of ciprocation of the carriage. I have found,

however, that where two yarns are employed,

the two webs in the leg presented the appearance of a seam or parin knitting two distinct webs said webs can an unintertial cord as distinguished from rupted and uniform fabric. In my applica- 1899, without interknitting wherever to the other takes tion for Letters Patent filed April 21, Serial No. 713,891, Ihave specified and shown a method of manufacture ,which avoids this difficulty and accomplishes the formation of place. v.In the Patent N effected drop one yarn and termination of a heretofore the two yarns have b isolated from one another. At

two independently-knit webs throughout any desiredportion and their union b the momen character as actuate the needles of one bed alone by a com- 7o inteitwin tliet o ains at the point fiom with the yarn g f the loops wl which the carriage staits. This intertwininfr he web G by merely crossing the saine. o e two yarns unites the two webs without Referring now to Fig. 3, which represents interknitting them, the line 0f union pos he line of union between the other edges of sessing a beautiful inish a d being much the independently-knit webs, it will there be io less conspicuous than that formed by actual seen that the yarn of the web 1 is interinteikiiitting, while it is fully complete in nit with the yarn g of the web G', such ina lsti nctiiial characteiistics In the machine terknitting beingindicated as extending from esciibed in my said Patent No 582,547 the the bottom of the web up to t e pointI, above tie needle-bed, and the inteitwining is oiil oi med in a continuous and nifoimly-knit e ected thereon aftei a complete reciproca tube instead of by the interknittiiig of sepaion of the needle-carnage back and forth iate webs. uch a e ange from the Wowebs hen, theiefore, that machine is used in its to the single one of coui'se occurs at the terpieseiit foi in, the intertwining of the yains iniiiation of the other line ot' union,- butIdo can only be employed to join the webs alonrr not deem it necessary to illustrate this in both one line of their pioximate edges, the unitinfr of the enlarged views. 8o of tie web along the other line eing prefer- As before stated, the fact that the union is ably effected by intei knitting in the manner effected byintertwining atoneside onlyof the escribed in my said application, Serial No. independeiitl i-knit webs is due to the limi- 713,S9l. When this method of operation has tations of the machine which I have referred been carried on duiing the period desired foi to; but obviously the abric itself is not esthe foi mation of the comp ite web`say, for sentially thus limited. Hence I mean bythe instance throughoutthefootandheelportions anguage which I employ in my claims to iii of the stocking-t ie ti aiisition is made to the clude such stocking whether the independalteriiative method o operation whereb inently-knit web e united along both pairs of stead o forminO1 two independent webs and ieii proximate edges or only along one pair 9o uniting them alonfr their proximate edges a eieof, the conspicuous featuie of myinveiisingle and unifoiinly-eontinuoiis tubular web on iesi'ding in the fact iat such a union can is knit thioiighout the egportion I do not e effected without the action of the needles howevei in this application claim the mech istinguished fiom theinterlrnittinfrol` the anism oi piocess bv which the a ove-stated webs by the direct action of the needl s. iesults aie accomplished, noi d I limit my I use the terni intertwined as a convenself to the use of the machineiy above ie ieiit one to comprehend, broadly, the relation feired to as I have meiely selected the same of two or more yains which ai'e definitely en to indicate a typical method of production aged in such a fabric by any other means e stocking which constitutes my present than the knittinfr action of a needl ioo invention may be made upon aii type of Having th iis described my invention I iiit ng-inachine which is capable of produc c aim ing two iiidepen ent ebs with proximate l. In a stocking, the combination of a foot e( ges and a continuous tubular web and portion, comprising two independently-knit which is also capable of employing two yarns webs, united yintertwi d yarns and 'tleg 105 and changing from one to the other either at portion of single, continuous, tubular-knit one or both limits of the independently-knit web, substantially as set forth. webs. n a stocking, the combination of a foot Referringnow toFig.l,which showsastockportion, comprising two independently-knit ing formed in accordance with myinvention, webs having a pair of their proximate edges iio A indicates the leg portion of the stockinfr united by inteitwined yai ns, and having the an B the foot portion thereof, tlielat-terliav ot er paii of said edges united by interknit inb the usual heel d toe pockets C D, reloops, and aleg portion of single, continuous, spectively The oe and bottom portion of tubular-knit web, substantially as set forth. tie foot aie represented as being oi med of J OI'IN G. POIVELL.

Witnesses:

FRANK GRAHAM, WM. Il. PHILPET.

he whole of the l as formed of shaded yarn. 

